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Improved Process Quality through Certification Systems: An Assessment of Selected Animal Welfare Labels

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Improved Process Quality through Certification Systems: An Assessment of Selected Animal Welfare Labels
 
Creator Heise, Heinke
Pirsich, Wiebke
Theuvsen, Ludwig
 
Subject Animal welfare label; certification systems; process quality of food products
 
Description The process quality of food products is currently the subject of increased attention. In the area of meat production, public discussion has centered on perceived low standards of animal welfare. Besides an increase in legislative regulations, improved animal welfare standards are most frequently achieved through the establishment of socalled animal welfare labels. So far these labeling concepts have not been substantially evaluated in terms of how well they carry out their goal of improving process quality in agricultural animal husbandry. This paper will use a recognized list of criteria to evaluate selected animal welfare labels. Results show that competing labels vary strongly regarding the improvement of process quality. This has far‐reaching effects not only for consumers andother label users, but also for companies that want to enter the animal welfare segment of the meat market.
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2014-08-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/513
10.18461/ijfsd.v5i1.513
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 5, No 1 (2014); 23 - 33
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/513/361